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1 online resource (227 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies |
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Routledge advances in art and visual studies.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Global Cities, Global Nature; Part I Forgotten Spaces; 1 Beyond Narcissus: The Sea and the Metamorphosis of Port Cities in the Late 20th Century; 2 Bangkok Against Its Nature; 3 Growing Up in a Steel Mill: A Conversation with Historian and Nature-Lover Elmer J. Hall; 4 Looking Beyond the Image of "the Wasteland": Newark, New Jersey; Part II Artificial Spaces; 5 Passages: From Artificial Animal to Planetary Man; 6 Luigi Ghirri: The Theater of Landscape |
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7 Nature, Plastic, Artifice: In Conversation With Tuula Närhinen8 Naturally Representative: The Environmental Planning of the New African Capitals Abuja and Dodoma; 9 Grey, Green, Gold; Part III Interstitial Spaces; 10 Reyner Banham's Desert Landscapes; 11 'Nature' in Interstice: Reflections on China's "Obscure Poetry" in the 1970s; 12 The Green Corridor: A Vision for Lisbon; 13 Weather, Science and Cinema: In Conversation With Conor McFeely; 14 The Postcolonial Garden City? Changing Representations of Nature in Christchurch, New Zealand; List of Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
The turn of the 1960s-70s, characterized by the rapid acceleration of globalization, prompted a radical transformation in the perception of urban and natural environments. The urban revolution and related prospect of the total urbanisation of the planet, in concert with rapid population growth and resource exploitation, instigated a surge in environmental awareness and activism. One implication of this moment is a growing recognition of the integration and interconnection of natural and urban entities. The present collection is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the changing modes of representation of nature in the city beginning from the turn of the 1960s/70s. Bringing together a number of different disciplinary approaches, including architectural studies and aesthetics, heritage studies and economics, environmental science and communication, the collection reflects upon the changing perception of socio-natures in the context of increasing urban expansion and global interconnectedness as they are/were manifest in specific representations. Using cases studies from around the globe, the collection offers a historical and theoretical understanding of a paradigmatic shift whose material and symbolic legacies are still accompanying us in the early 21st century. The Postcolonial Garden City? Changing Representations of Nature in Christchurch, New Zealand |
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Print version record |
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Cultural geography.
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Art.
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Cultural Studies
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Human ecology -- Study and teaching.
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Globalization.
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Heritage
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Memory.
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Urban History
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Cities and towns -- Study and teaching.
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Visual Culture
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Visual Studies
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globalism.
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Art
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Cities and towns -- Study and teaching
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Cultural geography
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Globalization
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Human ecology -- Study and teaching
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Memory
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Vogelaar, Alison
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| ISBN |
9781134968336 |
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1134968337 |
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9781134968404 |
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113496840X |
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9781134968473 |
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9781315538167 |
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1134968477 |
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9781134968473 |
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1315538164 |
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9781315538167 |
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